Shipley & Halmos
Critics were mostly underwhelmed by Shipley & Halmos’s latest collection, one that spanned “from retro lady-land with Katharine Hepburn-esque trousers to tough-chic hipsterville,” according to Style.com. British Vogue called the display “more than a little unfocused,” and Style.com agreed, “it was difficult to pull out an exact direction that these clothes were headed in.” WWD preferred the duo’s traditional “casual-cool separates and great men’s wear” to their latest attempts at “fussy” satin and silk jersey frocks. Fashion Week Daily was a lone dissenter, calling the collection “confident” and declaring that “the line's women's wear was stronger than ever before.” British Vogue was bored to sarcasm by the color palette (“Navy, cream and black? Really?”) and amusingly likened an open-weave black sweater to “something you might see [in] an International Male catalogue.” Style.com groused that they longed to see more “life and personality in their clothes.” But British Vogue delivered the final blow, snarking: “All told, the most interesting things seen on this runway were the neon backdrop and the dramatic pink eye makeup worn by the female models.”